HEXACO Personality Inventory (60-item)
Six-factor personality assessment — adds Honesty-Humility to the Big Five
The HEXACO model adds a sixth dimension — Honesty-Humility — to the Big Five. 60 items cover all six factors including Emotionality, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, and Openness to Experience. Takes about 12 minutes.
Beyond the Big Five
You've probably done a Big Five test before. Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Neuroticism. The classic five. But here's the thing: research keeps finding that a sixth factor keeps showing up in lexical studies — something the Big Five doesn't quite capture.
That factor is Honesty-Humility. It measures things like sincerity, fairness, and modesty. The HEXACO model adds this to the mix, giving you a fuller picture of personality. Not because the Big Five is wrong, but because there's more going on.
This version uses public-domain items from the International Personality Item Pool (IPIP), which map closely to the HEXACO framework. 60 items, about 12 minutes.
Your Six Dimensions
HEXACO stands for its six factors: Honesty-Humility, Emotionality, eXtraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, and Openness. Each one is scored from 1 to 5 based on your answers.
Unlike the Big Five, where Neuroticism is the emotional instability factor, HEXACO's Emotionality covers fearfulness, anxiety, dependence, and sentimentality — a slightly different mix. And Agreeableness here is specifically about forgiveness, gentleness, flexibility, and patience (versus anger).
Honesty-Humility is the big addition. If you score high, you tend to be sincere, fair, and modest. Low scores suggest a tendency toward manipulation, rule-breaking for personal gain, and a sense of entitlement.
Where This Model Shines
The HEXACO model has been especially useful in research on dark personality traits, workplace deviance, and ethical decision-making. The Honesty-Humility factor picks up variance that the Big Five leaves on the table — things like psychopathy, Machiavellianism, and narcissism have stronger links to low H than to any Big Five factor.
That doesn't mean a low H score is a red flag. It just means you're more willing to bend rules when it benefits you, something a lot of people do in competitive environments.
Scoring Notes
Each domain score is the average of its 10 items (1-5 scale). Higher scores mean you identify more with that trait. The dimensional scoring means there are no clinical cutoffs — it's a personality profile, not a diagnostic tool.
Scoring Guide
Each domain score = mean of its 10 items (1-5 scale). Reverse items are handled in JS code.Result Interpretation
Finish the 60 questions and you get your results straight away — no account needed, nothing to sign up for.
- Your score is calculated from your answers.
- What it means — a plain-language breakdown of where you fall.
- Dimension scores shown separately for each sub-scale.
- Context where available, compared against population norms.